Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 155

155 Compensation

(1) A person may claim from the State the cost of repairing or replacing property damaged in the exercise or purported exercise of a power under this Act.

(2) The cost may be claimed and ordered to be paid in a proceeding—

(a) brought in a court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of the amount claimed; or

(b) for an offence against this Act brought against the person claiming the amount.

(3) A court may order an amount be paid only if it is satisfied it is just to make the order in the circumstances of the particular case.

(4) A regulation may prescribe matters that may, or must, be taken into account by the court when considering whether it is just to make the order.